Ink well and pen filling device



May 7, 1935. D. E. WADE INK WELL AND PEN FILLING DEVICE Filed April 25, 1954 Patented May 7, 1935 2,000,501

' fl-QUNITED STATES PATENT OFF-ICE 1N WELL Airhead-FIL ING Device David E. waaaf' iitan NLY. Application April 26, 1934, serial No. 722,579

3 Claims. (o1.120 s4) This invention relates to ink wells and more This collapsing well I5 is preferably constructed particularly to a pen filling ink well. of rubber or other yieldable material and is pro- An object of this invention is to provide an vided with a yieldable neck |6 surrounded by a improved type of ink well which is adapted to relatively rigid or metallic sleeve H. The body 5 be used in combination with the fountain pen or housing H! has a substantially cylindrical neck 5 structure embodied in my application, Serial |8 provided with exterior threadsand the sleeve Number 722,578, filed of even date herewith. I! is slidable on the inside of this neck I8. A cap Another object of this invention is to provide a I!) provided with interior threads is adapted to pen filling ink well which is so constructed that threadably engage the exterior threads of the 10 an end of a fountain penis adapted to be received neck I8 so as 'to close the tapered opening 20 in 10 in a portion of the well and the well placed under the yieldable neck l6. such pressure as to force the ink in the well to Afountain pen, generally designated as 2|, havpass into the interior of the barrel of the pen. ing a pen holding lower end 22, is adapted to en- A further object of this invention is to provide gage in the tapered opening 20 of the yieldable an improved type of well wherein the end of the neck or plug I6. This pen 2| has a manually l5 pen will be sealed in the well so that no ink in operable air venting valve 23 movable through a the well will pass about the outside of the pen plug 24 in the upper end of the barrel of the when the well is placed under pressure to force pen 2|. the ink in the well to flow up into the barrel of In the use and operation of the ink well herethe pen. inbefore described, ink or other fluid 25 is in- 20 A still further object of this invention is to serted in the collapsible body I5 through the provide an ink well of this type wherein the opening 2|]. In order to fill the barrel of the pen collapsible portion .of the well may be easily and 2|, the pen point with the pen holding member quickly removed for replacement or repair. 22 is inserted in the opening 20, and this opening 25 The above and various other objects and ad- 20 is of such a size as to permit the point of the 25 vantages of this invention will in part be depen to project interiorly of the bladder or collapsiscribed and in part be understood from the folble member l5, while the pen holding member 22 lowing detailed description of the present preis sealed by reason of the tapering construction ferred embodiment, the same being illustrated of the opening 20, the neck or yieldable'plug I6, in the accompanying drawing wherein: when the fountain pen 2| is inserted therein, as- 30 Figure 1 is a longitudinal section taken subsumes substantially the configuration shown in stantially through the center of an ink well con- Figure 2, that is, closely engaging about the pestructed according to the embodiment of this inriphery of the pen holding portion 22 thereof. In vention, showing the well with a pen engaged order to fill the pen 2|, the air venting valve 23 therewith, this pen being similar to the pen strucis moved into venting or released position, as 35' ture more specifically described in my applicashown in Figure l, and the pen 2| is then forcedtion filed on even date herewith. inwardly of the housing In, which action willcol- Figure 2 is a vertical section taken substanlapse the upper portion of the ink well member I5 tially through the center of the device with the and as this member l5 collapses, the ink 25 thereclosure or cap mounted thereon. in will, under the pressure applied to the pen 2|, 40

Figure 3 is a top plan view of the device with flow upwardly into the barrel of the pen. Preferthe closure or cap removed therefrom. ably, this barrel 2| is transparent to a degree so Referring to the drawing wherein like numerthat it will be possible to see when the barrel has als of reference designate corresponding parts been sufficiently filled with ink without permitting throughout the several views, the numeral l0 desthe ink to flow outwardly through the air vent- 45 ignates generally a relatively rigid housing coming opening in the plug 24. Due to the metallic firising a bottom structure U and a OP tru sleeve I! about the neck IS, the neck l6 will not ture These two StructureS H and have expand circumferentially when the lower end of threaded connection with each other in substant pen 2] i t d i th opening 20 so that a y the Center thereof, as 91? I3, S0 that the the neck IE will at all times be slidable in the two parts of the housing Ill may be separated. neck l8 of the outer housing In. Preferably the chamber M in the housing I0 is What is claimed is:- round or globular so as to receive a substan- 1. An ink well, comprising a rigid body having tially spherical hollow and collapsible well or liqa chamber therein, a neck carried by the body uid holding member l5. communicating with the chamber, a collapsible ink holding member in the chamber, a yieldable pen engaging member carried by the ink holding member for sealing an end of a pen therein while permitting collapsing of the ink holding member, and means for slidably mounting said pen engaging member in the neck of the body, said latter means being non-yieldable in construction. 2. An ink well, comprising a hollow casing, a neck carried by the casing having a cylindrical opening therethrough, a collapsible ink holding member in the'casing, a yieldable pen engaging member carried by the ink holding member, said pen engaging member having a substantially cylindrical outer surface slidable within the neck of the casing, said pen engaging member havthe pen therein and a non-yieldable sleeve secured to said pen engaging member and slidable in said neck.

3. An ink well, comprising a casing including complementary upper and lower members, means for releasably securing the members together, a threaded neck carried by the upper member, a collapsible ink holding member in the casing, a yieldable neck integral with the ink holding memher, said yieldable neck having a tapering bore therethrough, a relatively rigid sleeve secured to said yieldable neck and slidably engaging in the neck of the casing, and a cap threadably engaging the neck of the casing said sleeve holding said yieldable neck against distortion.

DAVID E. WADE. 

